HAMMOND: READY FOR PARIS-ROUBAIX

Roger Hammond Team High Road 2008

One phrase sums up Roger Hammond?s feelings for Paris-Roubaix: ?It?s the only race that?s 260 kilometres long that feels like it lasts 10 kilometres.?

?Every other big Classic, even Flanders, feels like the distance it is, but Paris-Roubaix is different: it lasts no time at all,? Hammond says.

His motivation to do well Roubaix (this Sunday, April 13) could not be clearer, and it makes sense. Hammond knows that the 'Hell of the North' is a race in which he can really shine.

"If they don?t do that, and then suddenly pop up again at the end, that?s not so good.?

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